Corporal punishment is a way of inflicting pain in the body as punishment. A wide scale of punishments is being referred by this, from force labor to damaging torment. It goes by a variety of names and some names depend on the instrument used to inflict pain (Benatar 1998).
Although, there are still distinctions between the home and school situations since at home, parents are more attached with children and so when doing necessary punishments, their love and care controls their way of punishing. Teachers, rather, would oftentimes have no direct contact with the children, most especially in large class, that their way of punishing really differs from at home. This is why most cases about corporal punishment are allowed at home but not in school (Benatar, 1998).
It has been common for the recent years that during school board meeting, discussion usually focus on the students' terrible behaviors in school; this partakes to school violence, vandalism and being disrespectful to authority. The common suggested solution for this problem is to bring back the old ways of punishing students through the corporal punishments. Furthermore, many believe that to be able to mold the students into having good characters, corporal punishment is the best answer. However, behind the usual accusations of lenient disciplines, it is undeniable that corporal punishment is still on the go. Corporal punishment is still greatly practiced both at home and in school (Hyman, 1976; Maurer, 1974).
Like any other parents, their main goal is to raise children in a way that they are being trained for the challenges of life (Yorburg, 2002). This has been the reason why parents tend to punish their children in ways on how they would want their children to be, relying on their experiences, intuitive sense of right and wrong and from the cultural belief they were raised to believe to (Hamner & Turner, 2001).
